Notorios businessman Donald Trump Blasted Oil Prices and OPEC July 30th, 2008 “Oil (costs) is what is killing the world’s economy,” Observers say if the U. S. would rattle its own domestic oil supply saber it would shock the market and costs would plummet. Oil experts say the U. S. could be free of Middle East imports in less than 3 years. [3], he blasted major oil producing countries for the current recession and accuses large oil companies of “doing a major number” on everyone. [4], it’s the price of oil that is to blame, OPEC and the Saudi Arabians [5], on Feb. 4, 2009: “As far as the economy is concerned, though, I’m afraid that if and when the economy does get going, you’ll have OPEC raise its ugly head and come out and just raise oil prices again and kill it, because I think that OPEC had a lot to do with the failing of the world economy.”[6].

US president Barack Obama in his speech on February 24, 2009 said: The fact is, our economy did not fall into decline overnight. Nor did all of our problems begin when the housing market collapsed or the stock market sank. We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before.[7].

Real estate mogul Donald Trump says there is way too much oil in the world
to justify the current high market prices. “Frankly, I hear there are tankers
all over the world that are loaded up to the gills with oil,” he told CNBC.
“They have so much oil they don’t know what to do with it. It’s ridiculous
what’s going on with OPEC and all of that.” Trump blames major oil producing
countries for the current recession and accuses large oil companies of “doing a
major number” on everyone. Trump lauds the recent dips in the price of oil,…http://moneynews.newsmax.com/streettalk/oil/2008/07/29/117281.html

As far as the economy is concerned, though, Larry, I’m afraid that if and
when the economy does get going, you’ll have OPEC raise its ugly head and come
out and just raise oil prices again and kill it, because I think that OPEC had a
lot to do with the failing of the world economy. (Feb. 4, 2009)http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0902/04/lkl.01.html/04/lkl.01.html